Tuesday, February 27, 2018

From The Top

I’m so glad to be visiting JCR again and I’m super thrilled to
tell you about the next romance in my new Blue Spruce Lodge series, From The Top.

From The Top offers
a visit with Rolf and Glory along with all the other characters you met in On The Edge (including Murphy, the dog!)

The romance in From
The Top is between Nate, the project manager who is working for Rolf to
rebuild the ski hill, and Ilke, an alpine skier who has comes limping back from
the Olympics—pregnant with Nate’s baby!

When I was writing Ilke into Book One, she started out as
one of those cliché ‘other woman’ characters, but I knew there was much more to
her. And I loved how her cool, defensive personality contrasted with Nate’s
calm, well-liked, dependable character. I especially loved how both of them
keep their lives private and suddenly have this explosive secret between them.

It’s the worst timing for both of them and neither is handling
it well. Then stuff happens that you probably don’t expect. Also, Glory’s
father, Marvin, and Rolf’s step-mother, Vivien have their own romance, which I
hope you’ll enjoy.

Here’s Nate’s reaction when Ilke breaks the news:

Whatever dim, fall-into-place
vision she’d had of how this would go faded another few degrees. Fairy tales
definitely weren’t real. And reality sucked raw eggs.

“It was an accident.” That was the
most important thing she needed to convey, in a voice she struggled to project
evenly. “I was taking medication that counteracted my birth control. I didn’t
know until last week.”

“I wore a condom. Every time.” He
threw the clothing he’d gathered into a laundry bag near the door. “Are you
sure it’s mine?”

She felt her weight go back onto
her heels, then the raw sting hit her front, raking from her throat to her
breastbone to create a sick knot that settled in her gut. Why were women always
virgins or sluts and nothing in between?

She hated him in that moment for
being exactly like all the rest. Why then, did she feel his baby was worth
keeping?

“Since you’re the only man I’ve
had sex with in the last…” she looked to the ceiling, trying to recall “…two
years, yes.”

“Two years,” he repeated with deep
skepticism.

Another wave of defensive affront went
through her. What did he think?

As their gaze met, however, she
could see what he thought. Or rather, what he remembered. She had lost track of
the times she’d gone back for seconds. The memory made her tender breasts feel
that much heavier. The pulse at the base of her throat throbbed a little
harder.

Clearly a woman with her appetite
was a sex fiend who gave it up to any man who wanted to throw her a bone.

She held his gaze even though it
was like holding something hot enough to leave third-degree burns. Even though
it melted away whatever invisible shield she managed to hold against him and
left her naked and splayed and not something he wanted a second helping of. Not
now. Not ever.

Fiercely independent after a difficult childhood, Ilke Lunquist devotes herself to one thing: skiing. She’s on the cusp of gold when an unexpected pregnancy throws her future into chaos.

Nathaniel Hart takes on the daunting project of restoring Whiskey Jack Ski Resort to be close to his young son, but with one failed marriage behind him, he avoids serious relationships.

They might be virtual strangers with only a baby in common, but Nate is determined to be part of his child’s life. Ilke didn’t become a champion by ever backing down from a challenge, especially not one where her child’s happiness and her own heart are on the line. When tragedy strikes, heartbreak draws them closer together. Nate discovers he’s more than ready for a bigger family and maybe, just maybe, Ilke will find the home that has eluded her all her life.

Mostly Dani writes contemporary romance for Harlequin
Presents and Tule’s Montana Born, but her backlist of forty books also includes
self-published erotic romance, romantic comedy, and even an epic medieval
fantasy.

When she’s not writing—just kidding, she’s always writing.
Dani lives in BC, Canada with her husband of thirty years who occasionally
coaxes her out of her attic office to visit their grown children.

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